Say hello to my little friend, Pán!
posted on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 13:05 by theshadow
So recently I had a conversation with a friend who's stationed in Korea about how there isn't much to do and not anything to see. Seeing as any new media to come out takes years to hit a place like South Korea. I felt that this was a pretty sad situation and that our armed forces deserved a little better.
Previously I had heard about the Traveling Terabyte Project but it didn't look like they sent anything to South Korea. So I figured I'd just start my own little deal and send it off to my friend there.
By this point, as most of my friends know, I had quite a collection of media. All mine, mind you. I had started ripping all my DVD's and CD's and storing them on my 10TB RAID array for quite some time. I had just a little over 1.08TB. I figured I could find an external 1TB USB drive and cram as much as possible on to it. Luckily while searching NewEgg I found this beauty.
Well, with 2TB I had more space to play with! So I made a call out to all my friends for media that they'd like to share. Boy oh boy did the media flow in. Anime, TV Series, Movies all to support our troops.
At this point we are broaching almost 1.23TB of content and we plan to have it at about 1.5TB before the official ship-out.
After a while I decided that I wanted to provide a name, a face, something to represent this little traveling drive and I decided that I'd purchase a simple plush to play the role of our beloved mascot.
Enter, our beloved mascot, Pán!
Purchased from Cute-Plush.com
He and the drive will be shipped out hopefully before the end of the week with a little note asking our troops to help him experience various adventures and to write home about them.
I'm really excited about it and I hope our troops will enjoy this digital care package.
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